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[lumin]

I've been playing a lot of GalCiv 2 lately, but am looking for a good space colony sim.

Back in the SNES days, I used to play Utopia, but never played much else.  Does anyone know of a good game like this?  I suppose you could call Alpha Centauri a colony sim, but I'm looking of something more focused, where you manage the city itself.

Fragile Allegiance looks pretty good, but haven't played it.

[Soulwynd]

Fragile Allegiance is a classic, I used to play it a lot when I was a teenager a decade ago.

[JustOnePixel]

Deadlock was great.  Deadlock 2 I never played, but I heard people weren't too fond of it.

Still...Deadlock.  Check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlock:_Planetary_Conquest

[lumin]

Deadlock 1 looks pretty good.  I sort of like the art style.  Deadlock 2 looks a little too cartoony.

I've always wished someone would make a space colony sim with a darker tone to it.  Like something out of Aliens or Starcraft. 

I could see how finding some vicious alien race would be pretty fun, and then have to call in a distress signal to the homeworld for help.  You'd have to arm your citizens and make a militia like stand, until the marines arrived.

Reading Speaker of the Dead, and Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card are also good source material for a colony sim.

[Soulwynd]

Deadlock was good too. I remember there was this game where you made a colony underground. I think it was made by microsoft too. The followup obviously sucked.

[Aqizzar]

Startopia is exactly the game you're looking for.  A space-station management sim made by the guys from Dungeon Keeper, though it's pretty light humored.  Loads of fun, and remarkably detailed and pretty for a 2001 game.

[Soulwynd]

It was fun for a while. It's rather interesting in multiplayer modes.

[Mephisto]

I've got a game buried around here called... Space Colony. Never would have guessed that, would you?

It's not really the best game out there. It attempts to be SimCity, The Sims, and Generic RTS #5, but doesn't do any of them particularly well.

Hey, you didn't say they had to be good space colony games.

There's also MoonBase Commander. I can't tell from the screenshots if it's the one I played years ago. If it is, it's pretty much the original SimCity on the moon.

[Royal Surveyor]

I've always been fond of Alpha Centauri, but then again, I'm also a big Civ fan.

I also enjoyed Outpost for a short time.

[lumin]

Anybody try the Mars Simulator?  Looks interesting, but maybe a little too much "sim" and not enough "game"

[Virtz]

I recall Alien Legacy having somewhat of colony managment, although overall it was more focused on the storyline and flying around exploring and collecting resources for research. The storyline was great because you were trying to find out what lead to the destruction of the colony that was supposed to have been established there years before your ship got there.

Also, while story driven as well, Imperium Galactica (the first one) was initially pretty much about being governor of a planetary colony with a small fleet to take on threats like pirates. I'm uncertain how it fared later as it crashed on my computer during a cutscene. :C (although I've heard you keep advancing in rank till you become ruler of humanity and in IG2 you start off from there - ruler of one of 3 races)

Concerning Fragile Allegiance, it's more about establishing small corporate mining colonies on asteroids and fighting off the competition than really managing colonies (especially since the resources are exploited quite fast, so you may as well abandon them then).

Also, while I can't really recommend it since I haven't gotten very far into it, Reunion is rated quite highly among abandonware sites.

[Il Palazzo]

Mars Sim. is great if you're a realism freak. There's no real goal to the game, but then, it's the DF forum after all.
Somewhat similar in hard-sf approach, but less hard core(not much), was Outpost. Like Mars Sim the focus is purely on colony management=no alien invaders, but with a game goal and some nasty bugs to boot. There was a sequel as well, but I've never played it.
Reunion was great back in it's time, however it may seem somewhat simple/cliche today(or maybe it's just the jaded soul of mine speaking). It had a cool story and atmosphere though.
Ah, Utopia, the fond memories...
And does anybody remember K-240, the precursor of Fragile Allegiance?

[Soulwynd]

Oh yeah, the game I was talking about was Outpost... I guess it was made by sierra then. *smirk* Great game. But don't play outpost 2.

[omagaalpha]

Outpost 2 was not as fun as outpost 1.5 but to bad when game wasrelease it was half finish .

[Soulwynd]

Outpost 1 itself was crappy as hell. Incomplete and full of bugs, but I don't remember the details, I guess I got the 1.5 later, if it was the one that worked on win95 instead of 3.1